Collingwood chief executive Gary Pert has slammed the grand final ticket allocation process, saying it is "ridiculous" that expensive corporate tickets are going unsold while thousands of club members are locked out of attending their club's biggest game of the year.

"We're interacting with 70,000 members throughout the whole season and then the one thing they're dreaming of is for us to get into a grand final and then we get there and all of a sudden we know we’re not going to have enough tickets," Pert told SEN this morning.

"I just think it's a ridiculous situation for me to read in the paper today that they can't sell the corporate packages because they're too expensive.

"And all day every day I'm getting emails and chatting to people even this morning that can't get hold of a ticket and they just want to go and watch their team.

"I know the AFL's looking at it but it's got to be sorted out."

The Age today reported hundreds of seats to tomorrow's game could remain empty because corporate packages that were offered at prices inflated beyond demand remain unsold.

Pies boss steaming ... Gary Pert, left, and Eddie McGuire.

Package sellers, including the owners of Etihad Stadium, were last night were scrambling to dump unsold tickets for hundreds of dollars less than their initial advertised prices.

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Collingwood and Geelong were each allocated 12,500 tickets each for club members. The expensive Legends membership is the only category at Collingwood that guarantees a grand final ticket, and it is capped at 9000. The MCG's capacity is just over 100,000.

AFL members who nominate Collingwood as their club of choice also have access to grand final tickets – 60 per cent of grand final tickets in that reserve are allocated firstly to members of the competing clubs. There are around 10,000 Collingwood AFL members.

Pert said last year's grand final replay was an example of how much better the season decider could be if the scourge of corporate packages (which help raise funds for non-competing clubs) was eradicated.

"When we had the drawn grand final and we had to quickly pull together a second grand final last year and we filled the stadium with Collingwood people and St Kilda people who were the two competing clubs, I just thought the energy and the whole atmosphere was so much better," he said.

"So I hope they really aggressively look at it and load up the tickets to the two competing clubs."

Pert said Collingwood would happily hand over tickets if the Magpies were not competing in the decider.

"I think we get too many tickets when we're not in it as well," he said.